Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-11-05
LOCAL NEWS.

ad from Boston last week, where tneS have bssn spending the summer.
 MT. Pierce Ford, wife snd babies, re- turned from the east on Saturday last and are domlciled ID their old home.
 Harry Brooks has withdrawn from she Pacific Fruit Grower. IL IS now published by the old Index firm, Messrs' Barter and Reymert.
 Royal i. Johnson deserves great oeal of credit for the interest he IS tsklne in she Miles presentation exercises. There is vast amount of hard work 70 DC done. and Mir. Johnson Is never ldIe.
 In the course of few days there will be sold st sherifrs sale, 60 head oi cows 9 head of beeves, 50 head of yeernnss and 20 horses.
 Mir. Drake, the father of Hon. Chss R. Drake. who has recently been dsnser- ously ill, is fortunately now m fair way of recovery.
 A lion skin of somewhat more than ordinary dimensions was brought in oy Julisno Rodrigues to-day. A warrant on the treasury for S15 will be the re- suit.
 Mrs. Rosa Velssco and MT. Carlos Diss were married yesterday morning at the Catholic church, and left this morn ing for Nogales. The CITIZEN extends congrstulGt lGtions.
 There IS s great demand for seats for the Jetlreys Lewis entertainment Co be given Thursday evening. Mss Lewis is an accomplished actress, and is assured of 6 crowded house,
 The death of Mrs. Judge Stillwell was reported on the streets, this morning, but fortunately, proved to be without foun- dalton The Prospector of the 29th re- ports her out of danger, and on the highway to recovery.
 Mir. M. Henault has opened 8 fine ss- loon ID the rear of the Palace cigar store The place has been thoroughly retitted and made both comfortable and inTIt ing. Nothing but the best liquors and cigars kept st the bar.
 Col. Durr is in receipt of letter from Major Barter, giving the names of many old Tuesonites now in Los Angeles, that are both hungering and thurstInR for 8 schooner of beer and Dutch herring, with which the Colonel is want to regale his friends.
 THE CITIZEN extends it's congrstuls- tions to Mir. ". s. Whepley and Miss Dora A. Smith. who have joined hands for better or worse-better, all hope. The CITIZEN wishes them their full share Of esrth's joys and none Of its sorrows.
 Some of the Tucson boys got 6 nine together yesterday morning. and in the afternoon went out to Fort Lowell, and played the soldier nIne. The result, was 19 to s ID favor of the Lowells It is & shame that Tucson has not got 6 regularly organized base ball club.
 One of our amateur spottsmen day or two since, while hunting less than four miles from the city, before it was 1t was hght enough to see very well, shot and killed what he supposed to be 6 wild goose, but which, after being put ID the buggy, turned out to tbe an exceed ingly active and healthy polecst. he consequences can be imagined better than decribed.
 Professor Thomas Price examined the Mammoth mine last week, and the com pany will sink 800 feet more to deter mine whether the character of the ore will change or not. In the meantime they will experiment. and decide upon the best method of treatment. The mill was running at profit when they shut down, but they were losing too much ID the talllngs.
 or the four Wheaton robbers but one remains alive. The first of the qusrtette was killed by Chief Roche st Bolles Wells, and now Puebls and VssqueZ passed in their checks in the peniten- tisry yesterday. Psncho Gomez alone lives. He, ir will be remembered turned states evidence and got off with five years. So far as known, he had no hand in the break.
 A court martial has been ordered to convene at Fort Lowell on August 9th, for the trial of Lieut.. Ward, 10th Cav airy. The court consists of Gen. Carr, Col. Morrow. Captains Chsffee, Wallace, Kendall, Kerr and stanton 9th Cavalry, Mai Beaumont and Capt. Davis 4th Cav airy, Major Mills and Lieutenant Beck 10th Cavalry, with Lieut.. Richards, 4th Cavalry, as judge advocate. These gen tlemen will De here during the Miles exercises. which will be very pleaEsnt as good many of them are well acquainted in Tucson, having served at Fort Lowell at different times.
 The following figures show clearly how the mining interest of the State of Chi hushus are tiourIshing. In 1885 the coinage of money iu that state amounted to only S750,OOl ln 1886 1t rose to S4.- 000.000. Adding to this the value of the silver smelted ID American works and that of bar silver exported to the United States, it is calculated that the total silver production of that state exceeds S5000,000, or over one fifth of the entire output of Mexican silver mines. Stock rsiring and farming in Chihuahua have also increased to the same wonderful extent.-Two Republics.
 At the recent meetings of the stock holders of the Arizona Copper company and the Arizona and New Mexico rail way, the following directors were elect ed: ArIzonR Copper compsDy-Lsw- renee Russell, James COlquehoun, F. H. Herrick, M. J. Egsn and Dr. J. H. Lacy. The board elected officers as fol lows: Lawrence Russell, president; Jas. ColquehOun, vice president and secretary. Arizona and New Mexico railwsy-Lswrence Russell, Nj. J. Egsn, Jas. Colqlehoun, J. NEfsmith, l.. A. Sheldon, A. B. Ferrle, Joe. Leshy, B. s. Roberts, E. A. Cutter. Lawrence Rus sel was elected president, Nj. J. Egsp, vice president, Jas. Colquehoun secre- tsry and J. Nsismith tressurer.-Clsrion.
 or the four conyicts killed ss Yuma yesterday, three-Puebla. Vasquoz and Padills-were from Pima county. The two first were taken to Yuma less than three weeks sIpce, by Deputies Kreshsm and Underwood. Vasouez and Puebls Were thirty-year men, but PsdillB vss ID for five pears only. He was consider ed a sort of all around thief, and is as well known in Florence ss here. His last exploit was the Gregory block rob bery of wh oh so much was said at the time. Jose Lopez, another of the dead mutineers, IS sad to be boy Is years of age, sent up from Cochise county for thirty years, for murder. The man Villa mentioned, is supposed to be Vega, Rlso from Pima county, sent up for the killing of Negro DsvIs st Arivs- ca ID 1879